Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume 8, Issue 1 , Pages 22-28, January 2010

Cough and dyspnoea of an asthmatic patient at Mt. Kilimanjaro: A difficult differential diagnosis

  • K. Goebbels

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Occupational and Social Medicine, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
    • ,
  • U. Gieseler

      Affiliations

    • Department for Internal Medicine, Diakonissenkrankenhaus Speyer, Germany
    • Medical Commission of the Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme (UIAA MedCom), Bern, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Volker Schöffl

      Affiliations

    • Medical Commission of the Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme (UIAA MedCom), Bern, Switzerland
    • Department of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery, Klinikum Bamberg, Germany
    • ,
  • Thomas Küpper

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Occupational and Social Medicine, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
    • Medical Commission of the Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme (UIAA MedCom), Bern, Switzerland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Allmendenweg 52, D-40221 Düsseldorf, Germany. Tel.: +49 1520 1820256.

Received 3 August 2009; received in revised form 27 October 2009; accepted 2 November 2009. published online 14 December 2009.

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PII: S1477-8939(09)00157-4

doi:10.1016/j.tmaid.2009.11.001

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume 8, Issue 1 , Pages 22-28, January 2010

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